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...passion, becomes instead the most memorable thing in the film. Streep, almost by accident, takes over the stage whenever she enters. Irons is good--his aristocratic gentility and his moments of anger both stand out clearly--but he can't compare to Streep's magic. Streep, as the Scarlet Woman of Lyme Regis, has to convey an obscure, flighty vulnerability, always looking away from the camera and Smithson. And always she has at her disposal that piercing stare--a private look that lets the inner fires shine through the private mists. She builds an impenetrable wall around herself, riddle within...
...very invigorating. And certainly. Procrastination and I had had rough times. At some point each semester, lots of people would start treating Procrastination like a scarlet woman. Professors would ignore her, lecturing as if Procrastination weren't sitting there with me, referring to ideas that I could have known only if I had prepared for the hourly...
...story. The audience will learn soon and often enough: 14 times, the "present" film-within-the-film will give way to the "past" film-within-the-film-within-the-film. Inside the deepest box it is 1867, and Charles Smithson is again living out his perplexed obsession with the Scarlet Woman of Lyme...
...boys books bin in local libraries will attest). But in Europe Poe's reputation was up there with the best, and fifty years later, his stories would influence another European, Arthur Conan Doyle, as he tried his hand in the amateur detective mode. When, in 1887, A Study in Scarlet introduced Sherlock Holmes, a whole new era in detective fiction began, one that was both ingenious and literate--a kind of highbrow distraction for the well-educated who didn't necessarily want to delve into Byron...
...childhood bouts of pneumonia and scarlet fever and was unable to walk until she was nine. But Wilma Rudolph overcame these obstacles to become the fastest woman in the world and win three gold medals at the 1960 Olympics. At the opening in Washington last week of the National Portrait Gallery's new summer show, "Champions of American Sport," Rudolph, 41, stopped by a photograph of her Olympic victory in the 400-meter relay. When she is not working on her third book (on how to be a successful working mother), she is heading up the Olympic Experience Program...